Sosa Cartel

The Sosa Cartel was a Bolivian drug cartel that was active from the 1970s to the 1980s. Led by Alejandro Sosa, a powerful landowner and drug lord based in Cochabamba, the cartel possessed wide-reaching political connections from Bolivia to the United States, and it was one of the most powerful drug cartels in the world during the 1980s. In 1983, the cartel went to war with Tony Montana's Montana Cartel after Montana killed Sosa's hitman Alberto Ruiz rather than kill Matos Gutierrez and his children, and the Sosa Cartel ran Montana out of business by destroying his mansion and forcing him into hiding. Montana later recovered, however, and he would retake control of Miami and take over the Bahamas before Montana confronted Sosa at his mansion in 1984, when he killed him, Gaspar Gomez, and George Sheffield. The Sosa Cartel was destroyed, leaving the Montana Cartel as the strongest cartel worldwide.